Intentions to Marry, 1900 July-December

Reference: Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Notices of intention to marry, Series 8937, R2840418, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Wellington

Imaged by Carole at Archives NZ Wellington, September 12 2025

1900 is bound in two volumes, January-June and July-December.

Page 801

District of WELLINGTON Quarter ending 31 December 1900 Registrar FREDERICK WILLIAM MANSFIELD

No	Date of Notice	Names and Surnames of Parties	BDM Match	Condition	Calling or Profession	Age	Dwelling Place	Length of Residence	Marriage Place	Folio	Consent	Date of Certificate	Officiating Minister
506	22 October 1900	Luke Pella Monater Annie Beatrice Edwards	Luke Polla Mounter Annie Beatrice Edwards 💍 1900/5388	Widower Spinster	Signwriter Dressmaker	28 21	Wellington Wellington	8 years 21 years	Residence of M.N.D. Edwards, Berhampore, Wellington	00/5115		22 October 1900	Revd. John Dawson
507	22 October 1900	William Edmund Tiller Frances Rudenac Eades	William Edmund Tiller Frances Prudence Eades 💍 1900/4810	Bachelor Spinster	Draper	26 22	Wellington Wellington	15 years 10 years	St Mary of the Angels, Boulcott St, Wellington	00/4823		23 October 1900	Revd. Thos. O'Shea
508	22 October 1900	James William Frederick Forcey Kate Louise Mumb	James William Frederick Jones Sexton Kate Louise Munt 💍 1900/4838	Bachelor Spinster	Clerk	23 21	Wellington Wellington	23 years 51 years	St Peters Church, Wellington	00/4805		23 October 1900	Revd. Geo. P. Davys
509	23 October 1900	Ernest Robert Guy Henry Boyd Amelia Emma White	Ernest Robert George Henry Boyd Amelia Emma White 💍 1900/5389	Bachelor Spinster	Painter	22 20	Wellington Wellington	22 years 3 years	Residence of Mr. J. H. Boyd, 15 Barker St.	00/5116	Richard White, Father	25 October 1900	Revd. Jno. Dawson
510	23 October 1900	Alfred Armer Carson Ethel Rose Dawson	Alfred Arnold Carson Ethel Rose Dawson 💍 1900/4804	Bachelor Spinster	Merchant	33 23	Wellington Wellington	3 days 3 years	Salvation Army Citadel, Vivian St, Wellington	00/4843		23 October 1900	Major John Cain
511	24 October 1900	James Clement Nicholls Helen Maude Mary Bishop	James Clement Nicholls Helen Maud Mary Bishop 💍 1900/4949	Bachelor Spinster	Farmer	34 30	Wellington Wellington	3 days 30 years	Catholic Public Church, The Terrace, St. Mary's	00/4853		24 October 1900	Mr. Wm. T. Thane
512	24 October 1900	Robert Hodgson Elizabeth Mary Knight	Robert Hodgson Elizabeth Mary Knight 💍 1900/935	Bachelor Spinster	Platelayer	32 27	Wellington Petone	3 days 15 months	Residence of Mr. John Edward Knight, Jackson Street, Petone	00/4742		24 October 1900	Revd. Alex. Thomson

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What is an Intention to Marry?

The 1854 Marriage Act required Pakeha settlers (and later Maori) to register their intention to marry from 1855. The resulting Notices of intention to marry were sent by the district registrars to the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages and bound into large volumes, each containing a year of notices. These registers were eventually deposited with Archives New Zealand.

What information does an ItM record?

A typical Intention to Marry notice records:

the bride and groom's full names
occupation of the groom (and sometimes the bride)
their ages
district where the marriage would take place
how long they had resided in the district
Where the marriage would take place (eg, a specific church)
Who would officiate the marriage (eg, a minister)
The date of the notice and also a date when the certificate was issued. Marriages had to take place within 3 months, and usually occurred within a week or so of the certificate date.
If one of the parties was under 21, a parent who consented to their marriage was usually specified

These details can provide clues for genealogical and historical research. Knowing the date and district makes it easier to look for wedding notices in Papers Past, and the amount of time that the parties had resided in a district can offer clues to whether a person was born in NZ, or when they immigrated.

However, finding individual records in the Intentions to Marry registers was typically a slow and manual process, usually requiring an in-person visit to Archives NZ's Wellington office (during limited opening hours) and using a handwritten card catalogue index to look up individual names.

Eight years of the registers had been digitised by Archives NZ prior to 2024, but even these digital versions required the use of a manual index and usually examining several pages to locate specific records.

What is the Intentions to Marry Project?

This project aims to transcribe the New Zealand Intentions to Marry registers (from 1855 to 1925) with the assistance of new technology (AI), making the records freely available and easily searchable.

The ITM records have also been cross-referenced with the registered marriages at DIA Births, Deaths and Marriages, where possible (a small fraction of the recorded intentions to marry did not become a registered marriage).

Currently we have almost all records between 1855 and 1899. More registers are being added almost every week.

The project is led by Luke Howison, a web developer who made the free genealogical research search tool NZ Ancestor Search Helper and Archway-style Collections Search. There are also some wonderful volunteers assisting with digitising the registers.

Can I volunteer to help?

Yes, you can! You can sign up to correct errors in the transcribed records and match ITMs with registered marriages.

I am also looking for Wellington-based volunteers to help me digitise more years of the registers. I can provide lighting equipment and a 'clicker' (to trigger your phone's camera).

How is the transcription done?

There are several steps to digitising and transcribing the records:

Digitising the registers (taking clean, straight, high-quality photos)
Processing the digitised pages by straightening, cropping and sharpening the images
Transcribing each page with a combination of AI tools
Matching each ITM with a registered marriage when possible
Human verification of the transcribed information

The main LLM (AI) used are the Google Gemini Pro and Flash models, which have excellent 'Vision' capabilities, and a generous free tier.

Archives NZ has released the register years they have digitised (1865-69, 1872, 1874 and 1880) under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.

The Intention to Marry registers (up to 1925) are more than 100 years old, so their Crown Copyright has expired, putting them in the public domain. This also applies to any 'mechanical reproductions' (eg, pictures or photocopies) of their content without substantial alteration.

The transcribed records on this website are released under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license, which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes, while giving credit to the creator (NZ Intentions to Marry Project).